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Dolly Parton's love of the Great Smoky Mountains helped transform her hometown

SEVIERVILLE, Tennessee — Dolly Parton didn’t just sing lovingly about her Tennessee mountain home. She spent her life elevating an often-overlooked region to showcase what long inspired her music and sparked a tourism boom that forever changed those living against the backdrop of the Great Smoky Mountains.

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From Dr Frank-N-Furter to Long John Silver, these are Tim Curry’s nine most memorable roles

When Tim Curry first pulled on his fishnets and uttered the word “antici … pation” through bold cherry-red lips, cult cinema was forever transformed. The British actor, who died at the age of 80 on Wednesday, brought a whole new meaning to camp and eccentricity as Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show f…

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PM calls for overhaul of 'organizational culture' of police amid outrage over missing person cases

SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Yonhap) -- Prime Minister Han Seong-sook called for measures Thursday to reform the way police handle missing person cases and to overhaul the agency's "organizational culture" amid public outrage over revelations an officer prematurely closed at least two cases with false reports the victims have be…

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Yayoi Kusama Was the Avant-Garde Radical Who Became a Pop Icon

On June 4, 1962, the Green Gallery in New York opened the most prophetic of group shows. It gave Andy Warhol his earliest exposure as a pop artist, with an image of dollar bills that was his first silk-screened work. In front of that lay a featureless gray slab by the sculptor Robert Morris; it counts as one of the …

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Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who turned hallucinations into art, dies at 97

FILE PHOTO: Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama poses for a photograph inside her Infinity Mirrored Room installation titled "The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away" during a media preview of her new exhibition at the David Zwirner gallery in New York, U.S., November 7, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo TPX IMAGES OF …

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US Open 2026 explained: Key players, schedule, prize money and UAE TV guide | The National

The US Open returns this weekend for its 146th edition in what will be the fourth and final Grand Slam of the year. Held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, better known as Flushing Meadows, the tournament will see Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka return to defend the titles they won in 2025. Here…

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